Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley -- "The Idealist" -- 8.30 o'clock...
...Idealist" by Guiseppe Bianco is being presented at the Copley Theatre for the first time on any stage, and for the unfortunate spectator who is forced to sit through its three lengthy acts, it becomes quite apparent why the play has never been produced before. Apparently Mr. Clive, emerging from the recent record run of "The Ghost Train" feels himself in a position where he may experiment with this and that, the experiment in this case being a venture into lush, melodramatic sentimentality...
...brings home one night a "fille de joie" named Violet Hunt, who, much against the wishes of Mrs. Holmes is established in the family. The son of the house Alf, deserting his former unprepossessing sweetheart, falls in love with Violet, and his marriage is supported by his father, the idealist. Mrs. Holmes, however walks out of the house in high dudgeon...
Author Marshall has contrived a credible and moving history of an idealist who pursued other phantoms than those chased by big businessmen and shady politicians in the late years of the last century, but he has allowed his selective faculty to droop. There is divagation, fumbling with incidents and words. Force penetrates these defects; in spite of them the story progresses, with power but without smoothness, like an ore truck with one square wheel...
...intense idealist, Romain Rolland retired from gay Paris to austere seclusion when his early marriage ended disastrously. He compiled biographies of famous men, a history of opera, novels, plays, screeds on pacifism. In 1914 he appeared in Geneva to work for the Red Cross, to enrage "La Patrie" by excoriating "La Guerre" in open letters to other pacifists. Still, at 61, a flayer of warriors, he includes a savage portrait of "Tiger" Clemenceau in Mother...